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- 01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Kensington...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
uncertainty is due to the megamergers of the past fifteen years when, Frank Biondi noted, all the major networks and film studios were sold. As Harold Vogel put it: "There are hardly any more multimillion-dollar deals to be made - the big wave is over. Now we have to...
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Paula Maute
- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject...
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- 27 Nov 2013
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No Bologna, Please
into Panera," he told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2004. "As we went through a year-and-a-half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Fall at HBS means many things to many people - for the incoming MBA Class of 1999 it means a certain level of discomfort as they take on a seemingly unmanageable case load and find themselves at the...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
Yes. Students with higher SAT scores do better in college, particularly in their first year. I expect that the kids I interviewed will all be successful in their chosen careers. I plan to follow their progress over the years. Most of them are not presently interested...
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- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
Courtesy Justine Smyth Courtesy Justine Smyth Justine Smyth (PMD 77, 2002) remembers a time when no one in New Zealand talked about breast cancer. It was 1980, and her mother, just 45 years old, had been diagnosed with the disease. “We...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening
allow for continuous verification of a computer’s user, eliminating the need for passwords. He was making just that pitch in a meeting in 2013 when someone offhandedly said,...
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April White
- 01 Feb 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to making lifelong learning the cornerstone of alumni relations. Building on the critical work of previous committees, this group is charged with ensuring the success of current educational programs designed expressly for alumni: The...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Editor's Note
exhibitions, the first of which commemorates the groundbreaking Hawthorne Studies in the 1920s and 1930s. We capture the spirit of that exhibition in a two-page spread of photos and text — something we’ll do for all the Centennial...
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- 08 May 2012
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Screen Saver
the same; only the numbers were different. In my current role I think about how to grow, manage, and sustain a nonprofit that has very different metrics from a for-profit...
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- 10 Feb 2014
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King of His Castle
APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Taylor R. M. Keen
master," he says admiringly. After college, Keen served as a management trainee for Bath Iron Works, the Maine shipbuilding firm. Guided by the Native American philosophy that "any decision you make should...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2002
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The Simplest Taste
After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
of US retail development. “The challenge with retail is delivering a consistent experience in every channel,” he says. “It’s largely about alignment between ourselves and our dealer network so that we can work together and deliver on the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
two-sided platform: Implementation teams have a consolidated view of the process to make sure everything stays on track, while the end customer gets a simple, personalized...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
make organizations work smarter and better — in a word, more productively? Yes, up to a point. But when competition becomes very intense, as it has worldwide today, the...
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- 17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist
generates electricity as it rolls—“[a] project that makes the world a better place.” Cofounder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City that creates View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
opportunity amid countless obstacles. The sale of ed tech products has been on the rise in recent years—with an estimated $150 billion in global expenditures on digital learning in 2018, a number predicted, pre-pandemic, to double by...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey